McAdam v. People ex rel. Joslyn

A motion is made in this case by certain persons appearing as amici auriœ to dismiss the appeal. It appears that McAdam, who was engaged in the manufacture and sale of butter and cheese in Chicago in connection with some company or corporation, bought some butterine,— perhaps a single package,—and sold it on the board of trade in Elgin to a Mr. Potter, engaged in the same business, and thereupon Potter secured his arrest for violating what is known as the Anti-Butterine statute, being the act of the legislature of 1897 regulating the manufacture and sale of butterine and prescribing penalties…